EXCLUSIVE:Bella Thorne and Patrick Schwarzenegger have been cast as the leads of Midnight Sun, a YA love story that will be financed by Boies/Schiller Film Group. Scott Speer (Step Up: Revolution) is set to direct the pic from a script by Eric Kirsten.

Based on a 2006 Japanese film, Midnight Sun centers on Katie (Thorne), a 17-year-old sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie (Schwarzenegger) and they embark on a summer romance. A September shooting start is planned.

John Rickard and Zack Schiller, who are collaborating on the Fletch redo with Jason Sudeikis at Relativity, are producing. David Boies, James McGough, Alan Ou, Hiroki Shirota and Speer executive producing. Devin Andre will co-produce. WME Global is handling the domestic sale.

Boies/Schiller Film Group also produced and financed Jane Got A Gun starring Natalie Portman, and Rickard is behind New Line’s How To Be Single, which is now in production for a Valentine’s Day 2016 release.

Thorne is the former Disney Channel star who recently signed on to the AwesomenessTV movie Shovel Buddies and is attached to the ABC Family drama project Famous In Love from Pretty Little Liars exec producer/showrunner I. Marlene King. She is repped by WME and LBI Entertainment. Schwarznegger, next up in Paramount’s Scouts Vs. Zombies, is repped by Management 360 and Bloom Hergott.

Speer is repped by WME, Principato-Young and Bloom Hergott. Kirsten is repped by Benderspink and attorney Joseph Weiner.

18 Comments

Why is Bella Thorne going to be in every movie? There are many other good young TV actresses out there like Nina Dobrev from the vampire diaries or Holland Roden from Teen Wolf.

Roger Tennant • on Jun 22, 2015 2:04 pm

Bella is 17 and those girls you listed are 26 and 28……….

herro • on Jun 22, 2015 3:12 pm

Who cares Bella looks 30.

Felipe • on Jun 22, 2015 9:34 pm

She’s talented. Tha’s why she is everywhere and getting recognition.

Kurac • on Jun 23, 2015 10:57 am

she kinda has zero talent just like her friend Zendaya

• on Jun 22, 2015 2:05 pm

Why doesn’t someone do an EXPENDABLES type movie, cast with all CELEBRITY OFFSPRING? I wanna see CHET HAZE/HANKS, the WILL SMITH SPAWN, and PAT SCHWARZENEGGER alongside the likes of IRELAND BALDWIN, KATE HUDSON, all the offspring generations. In a word: NO BRAINER! Blockbuster!

lion@aol.com • on Jun 22, 2015 2:59 pm

Bella has NO talent as an actress.

She’s adorable and has millions of twitter followers.

TomNewYorker • on Jun 22, 2015 4:15 pm

Bella Thorne is very talented.
her new Lifetime film Perfect High looks very good.

Patrick Schwarzenegger is a actor to look out for also.

jamiewauthor • on Jun 22, 2015 5:45 pm

Wow. Bella is everywhere lately. I have to say, this movie sounds interesting. I’ve heard of people with this condition and it’s always fascinated me– I can’t even imagine how complicated it must make things for the people that suffer from it.

Felipe • on Jun 22, 2015 6:40 pm

Bella Thorne is very talented!

733 • on Jun 22, 2015 10:11 pm

This sounds like one of those old 60’s/70’s type summer scripts! About time for a comeback!! :D~~

• on Jun 22, 2015 10:42 pm

Sounds like the 1988 Brad Pitt movie The Dark Side of the Sun…

• on Jun 23, 2015 12:18 am

Miss Thorne is popular for the wrong reasons sadly, while the numerous talented young men called in to read was a smoke screen for the stunt casting due to a personal favor. I imagine this is how all great films start, right?
Dear lord. Look for a late summer dump if it can even get released, and not go straight to video on demand.

Peter B. • on Jun 23, 2015 6:11 am

I was fortunate enough to read a draft of the script for this, and I can tell you that it’s really, really good. And I read a lot of scripts.

RR • on Jun 26, 2015 12:45 pm

The original with Yui Yoshioka was just fine & she can actually play guitar.

Felipe • on Jun 26, 2015 8:55 pm

News about soundtrack, Peter B?

Peter B. • on Jul 6, 2015 1:23 pm

From what I heard, somebody very, very awesome. Female, has had a lot of success in this world.